NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street shares fell on Monday, dragged lower by biotech and healthcare stocks, while European shares and the euro advanced on optimism over talks between Greece and its lenders after Greece reshuffled its negotiating team.The Nasdaq Biotech Index .NBI and the S&P Healthcare index .SPXHC posted their biggest daily percentage losses in about a month, after […]
Benchmarks ended higher on Wednesday following the prospect of Visa’s potential access to China, McDonald’s turnaround plans and upbeat housing data. Broad based gains among technology shares also had a positive impact on the markets. Meanwhile, investors continued to assess a mixed bag of corporate earnings results.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read […]
Beijing’s bid to rein in speculators could hit Hong Kong stock marketThe Hong Kong stock market is expected to take a hit after Beijing announced measures to rein in speculation, after the country’s benchmark index doubled in 10 months to its highest level since March 2008.Late on Friday, regulators announced that fund managers would be allowed to lend shares for […]
The local stock market promptly plunged 20 percent over the following few weeks, kicking off a phenomenon called the “Adam Cheng effect” or “Ting Hai effect.”In the two decades since, nearly every time the 68-year-old Cheng has appeared in a movie or television show—which has been more than 30 times—the Hang Seng declined.Most recently in 2013, the index fell nearly […]
Benchmarks ended Monday’s trading session in the red as investors feared a stronger dollar and weaker oil prices may affect first quarter earnings results. Investors were also apprehensive about the timing of the Federal Reserve’s decision to hike federal funds rates.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s Ahead of Wall Street articleThe […]
Why China’s stock market surge is too powerful to ignoreJONATHAN SHAPIROLast updated Mon Apr 13 03:09:31 UTC 2015
ChinaFotoPressChina’s stock market is up 20 per cent this month, 30 per cent for the year and almost 100 per cent over 12 months.
China’s stock market is on fire. The Shanghai Stock Market Index is up 20 per cent just this month, 30 […]
Mainland investors piled into the city’s stocks via the through train programme, with turnover hitting a record HK$21 billion. Photo: Dickson LeeThe Hong Kong stock market opened high on Thursday morning with a 5 per cent rise in the Hang Seng Index a day after it was swamped by a wave of mainland Chinese money that helped drive trading to a record […]
GeoInvesting is currently short Great Basic Scientific (GBSN), a rapid diagnostic medical test (Nucleic Acid Assay Testing) firm. We first alerted GeoInvesting premium members that we identified red flags associated with GBSN on March 30, 2015.In our March 30 e-mail to premium members, we stated:
We are taking a closer look at GBSN, as just 3 months after it went public we received […]
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,The higher financial markets rise, the harder they fall. By any objective measurement, the stock market is currently well into bubble territory. Anyone should be able to see this – all you have to do is look at the charts. Sadly, most of us never seem to learn from history. Most of […]
The Chinese stock market gold rush continued this week – Quartz
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SHAREWritten byMelvin Backman@melvinbackmanObsessionChina in transitionApril 3, 2015China’s stock market is on fire this year. It’s up more than 47% in just a few short months; that includes a 7.5% surge in the last week alone, making it a standout in world markets.ShareTap image to zoomThat’s the kind of […]
